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Quote:WASHINGTON — One of the final sticking points standing in the way of a tentative US-Iran peace deal is the phased unfreezing of funds held by Qatar and intended for humanitarian purposes, The Post has learned.
President Trump and Iranian negotiators are haggling over the final details of a memorandum of understanding that would reopen the Strait of Hormuz to international shipping while giving additional time for a second round of talks on the fate of roughly 1,000 pounds of highly enriched uranium.
The funds in question would not be directly provided to Iran, but would be used to purchase food and medical supplies, which are then sent to the war-torn nation.
The gradual disbursement would be tied to Iran meeting benchmarks, including opening the strait and de-mining it, an administration official said.
Qatar holds $6 billion released by former President Joe Biden as part of a September 2023 prisoner swap that brought home five detained Iranian-Americans, in exchange for five Iranians held by the US.
Iran-backed Hamas terrorists launched a surprise attack on Israel weeks later in October 2023 — prompting a clampdown on plans to draw down the money.
It’s unclear when exactly Washington and Iran will finalize the memorandum of understanding, but the administration official said it was the “closest” the two sides have been.
The developments came after Trump huddled with his national security team, including Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, for about two hours in the White House Situation Room on Friday. Trump said on Truth Social he was making a “final determination” on a proposed deal, but made clear getting rid of Iran’s nuclear dust was his red line.
The peace process has been belabored by the fact that Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is in hiding for fear of assassination by the US and Israel, requiring an elaborate days-long courier process to communicate messages.
Resolution of the final points still is believed to be possible within days — rather than weeks.
Many elements of the second phase of the peace process remain unsettled, with the central focus on how exactly Iran might dispose of its enriched uranium.
Quote:War Secretary Pete Hegseth said Saturday the US could resume battering Iran if necessary – and has plenty of arms to unleash an overwhelming arsenal.
“Our ability to recommence if necessary … we are more than capable,” Hegseth told the Shangri-la defense conference in Singapore.
“We’re focused on being postured and prepared to re-engage if we have to.”
Joined by other top world defense officials – but not China’s – Hegseth addressed the US’s ability to supply its allies in the region while at war with Tehran, even after the Trump administration suspended a $14 billion arms sale to Taiwan.
“Our stockpiles are more than suited for that, both there and around the globe, so we’re in a very good place,” the head of the Pentagon added.
“Right now we’re doing a pause in order to make sure we have the munitions we need for Epic Fury – which we have plenty,” Navy Secretary Hung Cao told senators May 22, speaking of the opposition that took out Iranian leaders and targeted Iran’s missile and nuclear sites.
He spoke Saturday with still no word on whether President Trump would OK an Iran peace deal as the internation community awaits his “final determination.”
Trump huddled with his security team Friday in the Situation Room but did not announce a decision.
Hegseth said the Iranians “are coming in our direction” – indicating the situation wasn’t finalized. He said Trump was “patient” and wants to make a “great deal” that ensures the Islamic Republic regime does not get a nuclear weapon.
Oman’s authorities, meanwhile, posted an alert Saturday saying they saw a “floating object” – an expected mine – in the Strait of Hormuz, and urged all seafarers to “exercise the utmost caution.”
That came after US Central Command said it had struck Iranian mine-laying vessels Monday in a “defensive” action. Centcom warned Friday that Tehran was seeking to “impede mine clearance” and that it would target any vessels engaged in mine-laying activity.
An Iranian lawmaker claimed its parliament was plannin to approve a bill to formalize “sovereignty” over the critical strait – which Trump says must remain free and open.
Quote:An Iranian missile strike on an air base in Kuwait has reportedly injured several Americans, as President Trump weighs whether to accept Tehran’s latest peace proposal or return to war.
The Americans injured some time within the last 24 hours included contractors and active duty personnel, a source told Bloomberg News Saturday, with minor injuries suffered after Kuwaiti air defenses struck an incoming Fategh-110 missile.
The attack also seriously damaged a pair of MQ-9 Reaper drones, which cost about $30 million as debris fell on the Ali Al Salem air base.
President Trump huddled with his security team Friday, and said he plans to make a “final determination” on a deal with Iran that would extend a cease fire for 60 days, reopen the Strait of Hormuz, and set up further negotiations on Iran’s nuclear material while the US lifts its blockade.
Located about 20 miles from the Iraqi border, the base hosted US troops during Operation Iraqi Freedom.
US Central Command did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The US, meanwhile, continues to enforce a blockade of Iranian ports, disabling a Gambia-flagged vessel Saturday, a US official told the Associated Press.
The bulk carrier Lian Star is currently adrift in the Gulf of Oman after US aircraft undertook the action, the outlet reported.
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth told a defense conference in Singapore Saturday that “We’re focused on being postured and prepared to re-engage if we have to.”
CENTCOM posted images Saturday of a Marine Corps F-35B stealth fighter landing on the flight deck of USS Tripoli (LHA 7) while transiting the Arabian Sea., as well as a US Air Force F-16 flying over the Middle East during a patrol.
“U.S. forces remain present and vigilant across the region,” it said.
Israel controls 60% of Gaza — and aims to expand hold to 70% amid Hamas war, Benjamin Netanyahu says
Quote:(May 29, 2026 / JNS) Israel controls approximately 60% of the Gaza Strip, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday.
He added that he has instructed the Israel Defense Forces to expand that figure to 70% as part of its ongoing campaign against Hamas.
Speaking at the Jordan Valley Conference, Netanyahu said Israel was continuing to increase pressure on the terrorist organization nearly three years after the Hamas-led massacre in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
“Israel controls 60% of the Gaza Strip,” the prime minister said. “My directive—70%. We’ll start there.”
The comments marked the first time Netanyahu publicly set a new territorial objective for Israeli forces in Gaza.
Earlier this month, the prime minister confirmed that the IDF had expanded its control of the enclave from 50% to 60%.
Under the terms of the first phase of the Oct. 10, 2025, ceasefire brokered by the United States, Israeli forces were given control of 53% of Gaza’s territory, east of the truce-established Yellow Line.
“We know exactly what our mission is, and our mission is one: to ensure that Gaza will never again pose a threat to Israel,” Netanyahu said on May 18. “We are carrying out this mission with the help of our heroic soldiers.”
On Thursday, Netanyahu indicated that Israel intends to maintain military pressure on Hamas until the terrorist group’s military and governing capabilities are dismantled.
He spoke a day after the IDF targeted two senior Hamas commanders in northern Gaza.
UKRAINE WAR
Quote:A Russian Oreshnik missile fired at Ukraine in January appears to have been made nine years ago and contains only Russian and Belarusian components, Ukrainian experts said on Friday after examining fragments of a weapon Russia says is a game-changer.
The Oreshnik, which Russia first used against Ukraine in 2024, is a nuclear-capable missile with a range of over 3,100 miles.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said the Oreshnik is impossible to intercept, though many Western experts have questioned that assertion.
Debris recovered from the small number of Oreshnik missiles fired by Russia during its war in Ukraine has helped Kyiv to learn more about the weapon – and to question some of the hype around it.
Ukrainian authorities assess the Oreshnik to be a modernized version of the older RS-26 Rubezh missile which was first successfully test-launched in 2012.
At a presentation of electronics recovered from Russian missiles and drones, a Ukrainian missile forensics expert said on Friday that the Oreshnik recovered in January had been assembled in 2017 from components dating to 2016 or earlier, all of them made in Russia or its ally Belarus.
“We were rather surprised, because they say that this is a very new missile, but if you look at the year of assembly, it says 2017,” said the expert, who identified himself only as Petro for security reasons.
AT LEAST THREE STRIKES
Russia has struck Ukrainian territory with the Oreshnik at least three times during the war, including a town near Kyiv during a heavy air assault on May 24.
Vladyslav Vlasiuk, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s sanctions adviser, said the surviving electronics were recovered from an Oreshnik that hit the western city of Lviv in January. Vlasiuk said the missile debris from the latest Oreshnik strike this month was still being studied.
He also said that Ukrainian investigators were observing a greater degree of substitution of western missile components for Chinese ones, which Vlasiuk said appeared to be a “forced” substitution.
Quote:The Ukrainian military released a theatrical, action-packed video showing the destruction of two Russian planes and a key missile system in the Black Sea.
Ukrainian drones took out two of Moscow’s Tu-142 naval aircraft at the military airfield in Taganrog, near the Sea of Azov, and destroyed a launcher for the Iskander ballistic missile system on Saturday, The Kyiv Independent reported.
Released video recorded by the drone show the kamikaze course of the unmanned weapon as it dove into the four-propeller plane while it sat on a runway.
“We are rightfully bringing the war back to where it came from. Russia could have ended its aggression long ago, but instead chose to prolong and continue it,’ Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky posted on X Saturday.
The war in Ukraine continues to rage after more than four years of fighting.
Another clip showed the Iskander launcher incinerated with another drone recording the resulting fireball.
The Tu-142 is a valuable long-range marine anti-submarine aircraft.
The Iskander missile system has been used by Moscow to launch ballistic missiles at Ukraine from a range of up to 500 kilometers.
A fuel tank, an oil tanker and a Russian administrative building in Taganrog caught on fire as a result of the strikes, according to Rostov Oblast Governor Yuri Slusar, the outlet reported.
Quote:At least five Ukrainians were killed and 40 more wounded from a thunderous Russian air attacks, as the Moscow-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant was struck Saturday.
Russia batter their war-torn adversary unleashing 290 drones and six missiles overnight, Ukraine’s Air Force reported.
In Sumy, a 59-year-old man was killed and a train station was nearly obliterated from several dozen kamikaze drones in separate attacks — as air raids lasted nearly 24 hours on the frontline region.
“The civilian railway station, from which hundreds of residents of the Sumy region set off every day for their peaceful affairs, has become another target of the terrorist country,” Deputy Prime Minister Oleksiy Kuleba said on Telegram.
At least another two civilians were killed in Kharkiv, a 65-year-old woman and a 46-year-old man, and two more in Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk, where houses and apartment buildings were struck, local governors said.
Ukraine still controls the city of Zaporizhzhia and the north of the region, but most of the south, including the nuclear plant has fallen under Russian occupation since the start of the more than four-year-old war.
The plant was struck Saturday, Russia’s state-owned nuclear energy company Rosatom reported.
“We are one step closer to an incident that will most likely affect even those who live far beyond the borders of Russia and Ukraine,” Rosatom head Alexei Likhachev said.
The explosion didn’t damage the main equipment, but caused a hole in the turbine hall wall of one of the units, Likhachev said, blaming Ukrainian drones for the strike.
Throughout the fighting, Russia and Ukraine have traded blame for strikes on the Zaporizhzhia plant, which needs reliable power to cool its six reactors and avoid a nuclear disaster.
The ongoing attacks come as President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that intelligence has information indicating Moscow is preparing for a new large-scale assault on Kyiv — and that Russian strongman Vladimir Putin was getting more emboldened to expand his attacks even beyond Ukraine’s borders.
Quote:Conspiracy theories that Vladimir Putin has died and been replaced by body doubles are alight again after a Russian politician appeared to call the president by a completely different name — Pal Laich.
“Pal Laich, thank you very much. I have prepared a presentation,” Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Patrushev appeared to say to Putin in footage from a recent meeting in Moscow.
The clip was published by the Kremlin itself, but an official transcript from the meeting switched “Pal Laich” to Putin’s full name, “Vladimir Vladimirovich,” the Times of London reported.
Nope, not a double here. He addresses Putin clearly with a clipped Vladimir Vladimirovich. https://t.co/TTDNOsFTXi
— Vlad Vexler (@VladVexler) May 27, 2026
Pro-Krelim newspaper Kommersant was even baffled by the moment, admitting “it seems that no one can explain what it was. Maybe he got overstressed. Maybe he wanted to say something about something, but he caught himself.”
And the puzzling detail has left some speculating the minister may have accidentally tipped the truth about Putin’s supposed use of body doubles — an unverified claim which has dogged him for years.
Theorists claim that Putin has at least three body doubles who often stand in for him, with people pointing out details like his ear shapes and height appearing to change over the years.
Body doubles being used by paranoid world leaders is not unheard of — Iraqi despot Saddam Hussein supposedly forced men to undergo plastic surgery to look more like him — with leaders sometimes using them to keep themselves safe from assassination.
Ukrainian intelligence has even backed the claims, saying Putin has three known body doubles and highlighting various physical characteristics that have supposedly changed over time.
“There are at least three people who periodically appear,” Ukraine’s then-head of military intelligence, Kyrylo Budanov, said in 2022, according to the Times.
Some Putin theorists have even posited that the long-ruling president is in fact dead, and that a shadowy cabal inside the Russian government is using doubles to hide that while running the country themselves.
Putin himself admitted in 2020 that a body double plan had been presented to him decades ago, but that he decided against it.
And the theories haven’t held up to technology — with a 2024 analysis using photo software from the Russian opposition group Meduza finding a more than 99% chance that each image of Putin analyzed was in fact Putin.
Quote:Vladimir Putin has sunk billions of Russian dollars into outlandish human longevity experiments — but some critics are skeptical whether the so-called-science has any grounding in reality.
Putin, 73, has dropped at least $26 billion on state research for the likes of gene-therapy drugs intended to slow cellular aging in a project known as “New Health Preservation Technologies,” the Wall Street Journal reported.
That drug “represents one of the most promising avenues in the fight against aging,” Russia’s Deputy Science Minister Denis Sekirinsky said in April — but is just one of numerous longevity projects Putin has been pushing in a decades-long obsession that apparently began when he was as young as 16.
Other avenues Putin has pushed include growing human organs inside pigs for transplant into humans in a procedure called xenotransplantation, and 3D-printing live tissue in a practice known as bioprinting.
Government-funded Russian scientists claim to have successfully printed a mouse thyroid gland and human cartilage, and have said they’ll be printing whole human organs for transplant by the end of the decade, the Journal reported.
And those projects aren’t just the works of mad scientists toiling in secrecy — Putin himself publicly announced the initiative in April 2024 and vowed such methods would have saved 175,000 lives by 2030.
“In the Russian Federation, work is under way on a whole range of scientific programs in this field,” the Kremlin told the Journal. “These projects are supported by the state, and many scientific and research institutions are taking part in them.”
One of the leading figures of the initiative is Putin’s own daughter, 41-year-old endocrinologist Maria Vorontsova, who is leading the state genetics projects. Prominent Russian physicist Mikhail Kovalchuk — whose brother Yuri is a financier closely tied to Putin — has also played a central role.
“It is difficult to discuss immortality, but the ability to repair man will undoubtedly increase,” Kovalchuk has told media in Russia, arguing that humanity will soon be able to indefinitely repair and place organs.
USA
Quote:CNN’s Abby Phillip accused the Biden administration of “deceptiveness” for covering up President Joe Biden’s health decline, after a “stunning admission” from Jill Biden that she’d feared her husband had a stroke onstage during the disastrous 2024 presidential debate.
During CNN’s “NewsNight” on Wednesday, Phillip argued that the ex-first lady’s comments marked a complete reversal from 2024, when the Biden White House vehemently dismissed health concerns about him.
“I appreciate that we now get to see at least some version of a truth that she’s putting out there because I think, yeah, the conversation should be had about the deceptiveness that was behind this,” Phillip said.
“The autopsy that the Democrats did didn’t delve into that, but it should. What kind of political system covers that up and makes it okay to lie to people about what everybody knows is true?” she added.
In a preview clip from a “CBS Sunday Morning” interview set to air later this week, Jill Biden discussed her husband’s pitiful performance against former President Donald Trump, in which Joe Biden stumbled over his words and repeatedly lost his train of thought.
“I wasn’t horrified, I was frightened. Because I had never, ever seen Joe like that, before or since,” Jill Biden told CBS News correspondent Rita Braver in the snippet.
“I don’t know what happened. I mean, as I watched it, I thought, ‘Oh my God, he’s having a stroke.’ And it scared me to death.”
Phillip said the “stunning admission” represents “the first time that we’ve heard her express any concern about that debate that ultimately ended Joe Biden’s 2024 campaign. But that stands in stark contrast to what Jill Biden had to say just moments after the debate.”
She then cued up footage from immediately after the 2024 debate, when Jill Biden stood onstage next to her husband and spewed praise into a microphone to rally a crowd of Dems — giving the appearance of being unperturbed by any potential stroke.
Quote:The illegal alien accused of murdering 18-year-old Loyola University student Sheridan Gorman in March of this year has been hit with additional charges after jail staff found him in possession of a shank in Cook County, Illinois.
As Breitbart News has chronicled, 25-year-old illegal alien Jose Medina-Medina of Venezuela was arrested by the Chicago Police Department and charged with murdering Sheridan Gorman in a random attack on a pier at Tobey Prinz Beach on March 19.
Prosecutors say Sheridan was with a group of friends on the pier when she noticed Medina-Medina hiding with a mask on his face and a gun. When Sheridan and others in the group started running for safety, Medina-Medina allegedly fired the gun, shooting and killing the young woman, who was in her freshman year of college at Loyola University.
This week, while in Cook County Jail, Medina-Medina was caught with a 6-inch shank, according to the Cook County Sheriff’s Office. The charges allege that when Medina-Medina was recently searched in jail, staff found a sharpened piece of metal in his pocket with a handle that had been fastened to it with tape.
The news comes as Sheridan’s parents, Thomas and Jessica Gorman, recently spoke during a rally in Rockland County, New York, hosted by President Donald Trump.
Jessica Gorman said her daughter planned to see the Northern Lights alongside her friends the night she was murdered.
“She never got to see those lights. Instead, her life was stolen by a man who should have never been in this country, a man who never should have been set free in that community,” Jessica Gorman said. “And every step the system had a chance to stop him and at every step, the system failed. And my daughter paid for those failures with her life.”
“No family should ever have to bury their child because public officials failed to put innocent American lives first,” Jessica Gorman continued.
“We did not just lose Sheridan, we lost our peace, we lost our future, we lost the life that we knew,” Thomas Gorman said. “And no family should have to become experts in immigration failures, release policies, warrants, sanctuary laws, enforcement breakdowns because their daughter was killed by someone who should not have been here and should not be free.”
Quote:Anti-ICE protesters are pooling cash to deliver riot gear to the front lines of the ongoing chaos in Newark outside the Delaney Hall detention center — fueling criticism that the mayhem is a well-funded, coordinated effort.
Donations are pouring in to help the protesters buy “helmets” and “knee/wrist/shin/arm guards” along with military-grade goggles to stay outside Delaney Hall, according to one list blasted out on social media by lefty political activist group the 50501 Movement — which was behind the No Kings anti-President Trump rallies.
The protesters specifically listed MIL-PRF-32432 shatterproof goggles on their wish list — which is considered “U.S. military specification” that ensures protection from “battlefield-level projectile threats.”
The armor was listed as a high-priority need to be dropped at the chaotic protest site, while organizers from further away were supporting the purchases by sending cash to the personal Venmo of organizer Jenny Garcia.
The tools are allegedly necessary for their battle against the “ICE Gestapo,” according to 50501, which formed last year and was behind an eponymous nationwide protest. Its name stands for “50 protests. 50 states. 1 day.”
The untold amount of pooled money was also being spent on wheelchairs, P100 respirators — which are considered “oil-proof” — Sudecon, a decontamination wipe used to remove irritants such as pepper spray, and “welding gloves for incoming tear gas cannisters.”
Garcia’s page has an archive of apparent previous donations, most of which were paired with captions reading “F–k ICE.”
Garcia is a communication coordinator for the Detention Watch Network, which opposes detaining illegal migrants.
Delaney Hall has been the scene of raucous demonstrations in recent days related to the the alleged poor condition of detainees inside the facility, which the Department of Homeland Security vehemently denies is the case.
Quote:Pro-ICE supporters arrived Saturday outside Delaney Hall in Newark to support federal agents and give the leftist agitators who have descended on the Newark ICE facility a piece of their mind
The 200 pro- and roughly 300 anti-ICE supporters were each cordoned off behind separate barricades, but continued to scream and hurl insults at one another.
“Right now, [ICE is] only doing their job, which is to protect Americans, New Jerseyans and keep these people off the streets,” said John Raftery, 70, who showed up to support ICE wearing a red MAGA hat and a sign that read “American First.”
ICE supporters chanted “We love ICE” and “U-S-A!” in an attempt to drown out the protesters’ screams of “Stop the raid! Stop the hate! Immigration makes us great!”
Pro-Icers called for Gov. Mikie Sherrill to squash the demonstrations in light of the escalations this week.
“This is a bulls–t protest and it should be cleared out. This is a waste of taxpayers’ money. We don’t want to see it,” said Proud Boy member Rufus Cutt.
Tim Walsh, a GOP candidate for Bergen County Clerk, also joined the pro-ICE barricades, telling The Post that the Young Republicans of New Jersey stand with President Trump.
“And they stand for law and order, and the mission of ICE,” said Walsh.
“There are plenty of people who have stories about the conditions inside prison. It’s not a good place. You should stay out of prison, jail, by not breaking the law.”
“It’s a jail, not a hotel,” he added.
Quote:California’s most violent youth offenders are being housed in loosely regulated “less restrictive programs” — non-secure facilities that can operate in residential neighborhoods near schools and parks with little oversight and no background checks for operators.
“It could be anything, anywhere,” one county probation chief told The California Post, saying some facilities charge up to $30,000 a month per youth.
Multiple probation chiefs, speaking anonymously, claim counties often don’t even know where the programs are located or who runs them until operators appear in court seeking to take house the offenders.
“These programs are popping up with basically zero regulation,” another chief said, adding courts are often forcing probation departments to place youths there before officials believe they are ready.
That means juveniles convicted of crimes including murder, rape, and aggravated assault are sometimes being released back into communities before completing treatment programs and placed in homes run by people with little rehabilitation training.
“We have maybe one place that we know, it’s vetted and we have a strong contract with, and then there’s places that choose to call themselves that [LRPs] but we don’t know anything about them,” a probation chief told The Post.
Less restrictive programs (LRPs) began expanding across California after Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 823, which led to the official closure of the Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) in 2023 and shifted responsibility to the counties.
The law created a legal framework for LRP’s under the Welfare and Institutions Code, and the state later established the Office of Youth and Community Restoration (OYCR) to oversee the transition away from state-run youth facilities — including shaping policy, supporting counties, and providing oversight for the system.
OYCR’s own guidance states that there is no special license or requirement to operate an LRP for youth 18 or older — meaning essentially, anyone can open and run an LRP at practically any location.
OYCR told The Post there is no available statewide list of LRPs, and said registering or vetting is a city and county level issue.
Despite multiple attempts, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors failed to respond to The Post’s questions about the registration process, eligibility requirements, and existing oversight or monitoring.
But county probation chiefs told The Post there is none.
“No licensing, no screening, no screening for the staff that work there, which to me is really troubling,” one Chief said. “We’re talking about murderers, attempted murderers, robberies, rapes, kidnapping, arson, sex offenders, and other very serious violent felonies.”
For example, an LRP housing sex offenders could be right next to a school and no one in the area would know, the chief warned.
Quote:Five people were killed and 44 others were hospitalized when a Staten Island bus driver, who didn’t speak English, smashed into stopped traffic along I-95 in Virginia, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said.
Jing S. Dong, a Chinese native who obtained US citizenship, was allegedly driving the motorcoach from New York City to Charlotte, North Carolina, when it struck a Chevrolet Suburban in Stafford County, near Quantico, just after 2:30 a.m. Friday morning.
The crash sparked a chain reaction involving at least 6 vehicles, officials said. Traffic had slowed down for a work zone on the highway at the time of the crash.
“The preliminary investigation indicates that traffic was slowing southbound for an upcoming work zone,” state police. “A bus failed to slow for traffic and struck six vehicles.”
Survivors detailed the harrowing scene inside the bus which rolled over and landed off the roadway.
“Boom, people screaming on the bus, glass flying everywhere, the bus turning over,” a passenger identified as Judy told WTVR.
“You had blood, people bleeding, people screaming, the bus smoking. A stranger came, bust the window open and let us all out. I’m thankful for that.”
“It was horrible,” said Wayne Tobin, another passenger on the doomed bus., told the outlet.
“It was just like blood everywhere, it was people holding their head. Their heads were bleeding.”
A 25-year-old unidentified woman from Worcester, Massachusetts, was killed inside a Suburban.
A family of four from Greenfield, Massachusetts, all died when the Suburban slammed into their Acura, causing the family’s car to catch fire, police said.
Dmitri Doncev, 45, his wife Ecaterina, 44, and their two children, Emily, 13, and Mark, 7, were all pronounced dead.
“With broken hearts, we share the devastating loss of our beloved brother and his family in the tragic accident on South I-95 in Virginia early this morning,” Iuri Doncev, Dmitri’s brother, wrote on Facebook.
Quote:It failed spelling.
A Rhode Island high school mistakenly misspelled the word “school” on its yearbook cover.
Over 100 copies of Johnston Senior High School’s 2026 yearbook are missing the letter “c” in the word “school” written on its spine.
Students, faculty and parents at what was dubbed “Johnston Senior High Shool” in the keepsake graduation book are shaking their heads at the cringeworthy mistake.
“It was really a shocking thing to see, a whole high school misspelling the word ‘school,'” Johnston senior Neari Vazquez told NBC 10. “It’s kind of a bad look.”
Johnston Senior High School Superintendent Scott Sutherland told 12 News that he wrote a letter to the school’s families to apologize for the error, made by the yearbook printing company Treering.
In the note, he explained that Johnston’s yearbook club looked over a digital proof of the book prior to publication, but it did not show the spine.
However, Treering, which is based in Silicon Valley, released a statement disputing his claims.
“The school reviewed and approved both before the book went to print,” the spokesperson wrote.
“The yearbook was printed exactly as the school’s editorial team approved it.”
The school’s yearbook club first noticed the glaring error when the boxes of books arrived at the school.
“One little thing, it’s like everything is perfect but this one thing is messed up,” yearbook club member Nate Dellamorte told NBC 10.
“When I talked to the advisor, he was already actively trying to fix it and a lot of the members said they’re gonna help him.”
Sutherland is outraged over the embarrassing oversight, and has already consulted with lawyers for advice on the matter.
“We are extremely disappointed that this error made it through the company’s quality control and production process,” he continued in his letter.
EUROPE
Quote:Millions in taxpayer cash were directed towards an Islamic organisation with alleged ties to the Muslim Brotherhood by the German government, reports have revealed.
According to reports from Berlin’s Federal Audit Office, obtained by paper of record Die Welt, Germany’s Federal Foreign Office (AA) gave Islamic Relief Germany (IRD) nearly 8.5 million euros ($9.9m) between 2013 and 2016 and millions more on top of that.
This is despite the group’s parent organisation, Islamic Relief Worldwide, having been classified as a terror group in 2014 by Israel, which accused the group of having funnelled money to Palestinian Hamas terrorists, a charge the supposed charity denies. A 2009 report from Germany’s Baden-Württemberg Office for the Protection of the Constitution also accused the group of being tied to the radical Muslim Brotherhood, which seeks to impose Sharia on the world.
A later 2019 government report found that the IRD had “significant personnel connections to the Muslim Brotherhood or organisations close to it,” following which the Foreign Office ceased funding the group.
The reports from the Federal Audit Office concerning the grants provided by the German government to IRD were classified and withheld from the public for over five years, with the government arguing that the release of the information could “lead to polemics” and would risk public discourse that would not be “conducive to the welfare of the federal government.”
However, the findings were finally disclosed following a lengthy lawsuit from attorney Seyran Ateş and the Institute for Secular Law. According to Die Welt, the first report found that the Foreign Office was “unable to explain on what basis” it had decided that Islamic Relief Germany was a reputable charity and worthy of millions in government grants.
It also claimed that the Foreign Office had ignored a “clear and binding directive” from 2009 to not work with the organisation.
A second report found that financial support for the IRD was done “blindly” by the Foreign Office, “without first verifying the legality and economic efficiency of the previous funding.”
Representing Islamic Relief Germany, the law firm Höcker said: “Our client has no contacts with the Muslim Brotherhood, does not see himself as part of or a supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood, and has absolutely nothing to do with the Muslim Brotherhood.” The firm also denied any connection to Hamas.
ASIA
Quote:The global order is unraveling as powerful countries flout international law when it suits them and "prey upon the weak," Vietnamese President To Lam said in a speech Friday.
This is one of three crises that are shaking the international community to its core, To said in the keynote address at the Shangri-La Dialogue, Asia's premier defense summit.
"The world can adapt to the fast-changing order, but it should do so through rules, self-restraint and dialogue—not coercion or the threat of force," he said, without naming specific countries.
The crisis begins when international law is "interpreted selectively, applied inconsistently, or subordinated to the logic where might makes right and the strong prey upon the weak," To said.
"In such an environment, states—particularly small and medium-sized countries—face mounting pressure to choose sides, and are increasingly vulnerable to coercion in the economic, technological, financial and security domains."
Vietnam's "bamboo diplomacy" approach in recent decades—pragmatic yet flexible—has sought to balance ties between China, a powerful neighbor and top economic partner, and the U.S., with which it has expanded security ties.
While Vietnam continues to pursue stable relations with Beijing, tensions remain over disputes over territory and fishing rights in the South China Sea.
Vietnam, like many of its Asian neighbors, has also been hit by the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran. The resulting three-month disruption to shipping through the Strait of Hormuz—a critical chokepoint through which Vietnam sources around 85 percent of its oil imports from the Middle East—has strained energy supplies and raised costs.
Quote:U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's remarks on Taiwan at a top defense summit in Singapore on Saturday appeared calibrated not to derail President Donald Trump's efforts to manage tensions with China, an analyst at a Chinese state-affiliated think tank told Newsweek.
The address came 15 days after Hegseth joined Trump on his state visit to China, the first by a U.S. president in nine years. Both sides framed the trip as an opportunity to reset the great-power relationship after years of tensions spanning trade, technology supply chains, and the self-ruled island of Taiwan.
Due to pressure from Beijing, Taiwanese officials are not permitted to attend the Shangri-La Dialogue—an annual conference that draws an eclectic mix of diplomats, military officials, and policy wonks from across the world.
Hegseth Treads Carefully Around Taiwan
In his remarks, Hegseth sought to project and touted expanded military cooperation with South Korea and Australia. He also called on U.S. partners in the region to shoulder more of their own defense costs, echoing Trump's concern allies in Asia and Europe are overly reliant on defense guarantees funded by U.S. taxpayers.
Hegseth leveled some criticism at China, saying there was "rightful" alarm in the region over Beijing and its "historic military buildup." Yet the defense secretary struck a more restrained tone than during his fiery address at the same forum last year, calling China-U.S. relations under Trump now "better than they've been in many years."
Whereas last year he warned a Chinese attack against Taiwan could be "imminent;" this time around, he did not mention Taiwan by name.
Hegseth did, however, stress U.S. national security strategy for the region centers on deterrence, making conflict as unattractive as possible through "denial along the First Island Chain" that requires making "escalation unattractive." The First Island Chain is a string of islands stretching from Japan south to Borneo that the Pentagon considers key to containing Chinese military forces in the event of a conflict.
During the Q&A session that followed Hegseth's speech, he dismissed concerns the U.S. defense industry would be unable to replenish munitions depleted during the recent conflict with Iran—the explanation acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao cited earlier this month for delaying a $14 billion weapons package for Taiwan.
Quote:The United States, the United Kingdom and Australia have unveiled a new joint project to develop advanced underwater drones, marking a fresh push to strengthen their security alliance and boost military capabilities in response to growing concerns over China’s maritime power.
The announcement, made at a major Singapore summit on defense, signals a shift from long-term planning toward faster delivery of deployable technology.
It comes as Chinese-linked vessels have been suspected in incidents involving damaged undersea cables near Taiwan and in European waters, adding urgency to efforts by Washington and its allies to secure critical seabed infrastructure.
Officials from all three countries said the first capabilities could be ready as early as next year, with the U.K. committing $200 million to the effort as part of a wider push to modernize allied forces.
Key Points
- U.S., U.K. and Australia will jointly develop uncrewed underwater vehicles (UUVs) under the AUKUS alliance, a trilateral defense pact to boost military capabilities
- First capabilities are expected to be ready as early as next year
- Project will focus on protecting undersea infrastructure and boosting surveillance and strike capabilities
- Officials say the move reflects a shift toward faster delivery after criticism of slow AUKUS progress
The Background
The U.S., U.K. and Australia announced on May 30, 2026, that they will jointly develop underwater drone technology under AUKUS to protect infrastructure and strengthen military capabilities.
The move comes amid rising tensions in the Indo-Pacific and growing concerns in Washington over China’s expanding naval presence and undersea activities.
It accelerates AUKUS cooperation, delivering new military technology to U.S. and allied forces while reshaping how undersea threats are monitored and countered.
CUBA
Quote:His grandfather ruled Cuba with an iron fist, but now top US officials have identified the shadowy Castro relative known as “The Crab” — for his six-fingered hand — as their go-to guy in critical negotiations.
Raúl Guillermo Rodriguez Castro is the influential eldest grandson of ex-dictator and 94-year-old Raul Castro, who was indicted for murder in Miami on May 23 in connection with the 1996 shoot-down of two planes operated by Brothers to the Rescue.
The younger Castro oversees his grandfather’s security, which grants him sway in a government where experts say Raul Castro still has considerable authority despite stepping back as president in 2018 and relinquishing official duties in 2021.
“Whenever Raul appears in public, he is right over his shoulder – right there,” said American University Latin America expert Dr. William LeoGrande.
The younger Castro, called Raulito, is a colonel in Cuba’s Interior ministry. He was present when CIA Director John Ratcliffe flew to Havana to meet with Cuban officials, including Interior Minister Lázaro Álvarez Casas and the head of Cuban intelligence.
A CIA statement after the Ratcliffe meeting mentioned Castro’s name first – even though he didn’t have the leading official role. It said the Director went “to personally deliver President Trump’s message that the United States is prepared to seriously engage on economic and security issues, but only if Cuba makes fundamental changes.”
The first approach came in February at an annual conference on the island of Saint Kitts, where Raulito Castro met with advisors to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the Miami Herald reported.
Raulito Castro’s late father Luis Alberto Rodríguez López-Calleja built the military conglomerate Grupo de Administración Empresarial (GAESA), which the Trump administration says profits off the backs of the Cuban people and accounts for 70% of the country’s hard currency. His mom is Debora Castro Espín, Raul’s eldest daughter.
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